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Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
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Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
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raphaelwimmer.bsky.social
I really wish #OpenAI would stop releasing free stochastic parrots in every community they can think of.
They sure look pretty but they are shitting all over the place and you can't have a decent conversation between humans anymore.
January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...
www.thedigradio.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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elikaortega.bsky.social
On being brought back to life by students’ projects.
A bunch of paper planes in various colors over a bright orange background.
January 27, 2026 at 10:27 PM
abruzos.bsky.social
Bien hecho.
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Agentic AI in education is a "ruse" - its promises of efficiency and productivity will really lead to an intensification of educators' work. Great to have @carloper.bsky.social on here now, and this is a smart short conversation with @neilselwyn.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Agentic AI and education - Education Technology Society
Carlo Perrotta (University of Oxford) was researching GenAI in education long before it hit the headlines. We talk about the latest hype around ‘Agentic AI’ and whether this is genuinely a game-c...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
My version of close reading for the 21st century.

open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
But, as I see it, just as the current collision between authoritarianism and democracy, whose epicenters include Minneapolis, Gaza, Caracas, Tehran, and Kyiv, is correlated to the Web 2.0 media revolution, the unfurling of that collision in the coming decade will be directly correlated with the cycle of speculative investment, consumer uptake, and government subsidization of AI which is already underway. As such, paying attention to the statements made by billionaires heading up tech companies and private equity funds, however performative they may be, is an essential part of clear-eyed confrontation with our present conditions.
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated.

demos.co.uk/research/ver...
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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ykomska.bsky.social
Essential read on the move of a wide segment of AI-training data annotation out of South-South into the wealthy countries. The industry is exploiting job market precarity & paying advanced degree holders (well!) to eliminate the jobs they would otherwise have held. share.google/pbfnMi1nnaR4...
The recruitment company training AI to do your job
Tens of thousands of professionals are joining tech start-up Mercor to hone technology in their skills
share.google
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
If you are a committed educator, of any kind at any level, under these conditions, you are revolutionary ipso facto. As long as we continue to exist, they lose.
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9d
guess I just prep my class on the volsunga saga. because there's a world worth trying to save, and part of it involves reading and learning and teaching. I guess.
January 22, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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stockwell.bsky.social
Using or teaching literature in the language classroom? Come and talk to us in Nottingham: 30th March
January 21, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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sebasfaber.bsky.social
La Estrategia Nacional d Seguridad de Trump plantea 2 preguntas: ¿Quién diablos ha escrito esto? Y ¿qué demonios significa?

Para descifrar este ¿manifiesto vanguardista? ¿manual de autoayuda? ¿comunicación interna para vendedores d coches? acudimos a Greg Grandin.

@ctxt.es

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“La Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de Trump expresa una ambición irrealizable”
Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente
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January 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM
abruzos.bsky.social
A thought: @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's podcast is the "From Caligari to Hitler" of our time.

jamellebouie.net/unclear-and-...
Unclear and Present Danger — Jamelle Bouie
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January 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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ykomska.bsky.social
The “anglosphere”, for having been the bedrock of the internet rise (& the huge linguistic corpus it generated & offers to NPL and AI model training), is now most nervous about where this is going. There’s a long read in this alone! (Stats from an uncritical FT article on China closing the AI gap)
January 18, 2026 at 1:44 PM
abruzos.bsky.social
"I looked at the AI-created paper, and while I’m not qualified to judge its methodological rigor, it looks like the typical quant paper I might find in a peer-reviewed journal. I would never read it, but someone interested in the subject might.

What do we do with this?"
January 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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markhurst.bsky.social
This new paper by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social makes "one simple point: AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions."

Grim but important reading:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
papers.ssrn.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues

I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
On plagiarism, predatory publishers and creating the future we want – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Straight to the syllabus.

While some of what is said here is peculiar to Grok & the aspirational models of profit & power around it, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social quotes @hbcompass.bsky.social to reinforce that any proprietary LLM has the potential to be "weaponized" in these or more subtle ways.
Grok is an Epistemic Weapon
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
www.techpolicy.press
January 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
The targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.
ericholthaus.com Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 16d
Can double confirm. ICE vehicles were circling the Chinese immersion school in our neighborhood within the past hour.
cityinahole.bsky.social Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 16d
Can confirm. My brother's boss had to leave a meeting because they're terrorizing her kid's daycare. This is just what passes for normal now in the cities.
January 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, in which I argue that Grok stands as the clearest example yet of a weaponized AI honed—through specific affordances of its integration with the X platform—as a legitimate epistemic threat.
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17d
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says Matthew Kirschenbaum. Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb, he argues.
Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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samplereality.bsky.social
How Generative AI Destroys Institutions. Killer opening line:

"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence."
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
papers.ssrn.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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pedrofriquelme.bsky.social
Se acaba de publicar la segunda parte del articulo divulgativo que escribí para MIRCO (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) sobre el murciano, el humor y la glotofobia. Espero que os guste:
mircouam.com/archivos/9077
January 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM